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.
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1950sCinderella (1950) Review
Cinderella is the film that saved the Walt Disney Company. The wartime production constraint.
1990sAntz (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.
1990sA 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.
1990sGoodfellas (1990) Review
Liotta, De Niro, Pesci, Bracco. Seen it twice across multiple decades.
2010sThe Town (2010) Review
Ben Affleck's Charlestown Boston heist film. Jeremy Renner Oscar-nominated.
1970sA Bridge Too Far (1977) Review
Richard Attenborough's massive ensemble WWII epic about Operation Market Garden. Legendary cast across Allied and German command.
2000sBring It On (2000) Review
Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union, and the cheerleading film that made its race plot load-bearing. The 8 reflects honest evaluation of one of the best teen films of the 2000s, anchored by Kirsten Dunst at her career peak, Gabrielle Union in…
1980sThe Breakfast Club (1985) Review
Five teenagers, one library, one Saturday detention. John Hughes's bottle-episode masterpiece with Paul Gleason as the principal.
1960sThe Dirty Dozen (1967) Review
The Dirty Dozen is the better-known cousin of The Devil's Brigade, released a year earlier in 1967 to massive box office success. This is going to be a different kind of review because the experience was different.
1960sThe Devil’s Brigade (1968) Review
William Holden, Cliff Robertson, and the true story of the joint US-Canadian commando unit that earned a German nickname. The film tells the true story of the First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit assembled in 1942 to…
2010sTotal Recall (2012) Review
Critics judged Wiseman's 2012 Total Recall against the wrong reference film. The 1990 and 2012 versions of Total Recall are different films, not competing films.