One Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the great Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful early 1960s feature. Sleeping Beauty had been the most expensive animated production Disney had attempted and had generated substantially disappointing initial commercial…
The film adapts Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew to contemporary American high school setting. Cameron James, a new student at Padua High School, develops romantic interest in Bianca Stratford.
André Øvredal's Norwegian superhero film with Nat Wolff. The best Thor origin story ever filmed, and Thor is never named.
Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Daniel Craig's career-defining performance that secured him the James Bond role.
Clint Eastwood's foundational revisionist Western. Won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.
George Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.
Liotta, De Niro, Pesci, Bracco. Seen it twice across multiple decades.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly defined the Western. Eastwood, Wallach, Van Cleef.
Rob Reiner romcom with Nora Ephron screenplay. Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan across twelve years.
Nora Ephron's foundational early-1990s romantic comedy. An Affair to Remember homage.
What Women Want made $374 million worldwide. Mel Gibson hearing women's thoughts.
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