Movie Reviews (Page 87)

Apollo 13 (1995) Review

The film rewards repeat viewing because the substance is procedural instead of dramatic in the conventional sense. The film is adapted from Lost Moon, the 1994 memoir by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.

Antz (1998) Review

DreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022) film poster

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, 1979, 2022) Review

The Nazis later burned it and strip. The Nazis later burned it and stripped Remarque of his German citizenship.

Alice in Wonderland (1951) Review

Alice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…

Airplane! (1980) Review

is 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!.

A Bug’s Life (1998) Review

The 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.

50 First Dates (2004) Review

50 First Dates is one of the more substantive Adam Sandler romantic comedies and the second major collaboration between Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The Wedding Singer had established the romantic comedy partnership that 50 First Dates extended.

101 Dalmatians (1961) Review

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…

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10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Review

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.

Layer Cake (2004) Review

Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut. Daniel Craig's career-defining performance that secured him the James Bond role.

Unforgiven (1992) Review

Clint Eastwood's foundational revisionist Western. Won four Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Shane (1953) Review

George Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.

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