Mousehunt (1997)
Mousehunt is one of the funniest physical comedies ever produced and one of the most overlooked. Gore Verbinski directed in his feature debut.
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1990sThe Mask (1994)
Carrey plays Stanley Ipkiss, a meek bank clerk in Edge City who finds an ancient Norse mask that, when worn, transforms him into a green-faced, zoot-suited cartoon character with reality-bending powers. The film is a Tex Avery cartoon translated into…
2010s1917 (2019)
1917 is the best war film of the last twenty years. The whole movie is built to look like one unbroken.
1920sWings (1927)
Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.
1970sZeppelin (1971)
Michael York plays Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a half-German British officer recruited to defect to the Germans so he can spy on their new super-zeppelin program. You watch Zeppelin for the airships.
2000sKingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is two different films. The theatrical cut is a confused 144-minute medieval action movie that critics dismissed and audiences ignored.
1980sExcalibur (1981)
Nicholas Clay plays Lancelot. What makes the film unusual is that Boorman shoots the legend as the legend instead of as a historical drama.
1960sJason and the Argonauts (1963)
Jason and the Argonauts is Ray Harryhausen's masterpiece. Bernard Herrmann composed the score in his fourth and final collaboration with Harryhausen.
1960sMysterious Island (1961)
Mysterious Island is the Harryhausen adaptation of Jules Verne. The film adapts Verne's 1874-1875 novel L'Île mystérieuse, with substantial creative liberty.
1970sThe Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is the second Harryhausen Sinbad film and the last great Harryhausen fantasy adventure. John Phillip Law plays Sinbad.
1940sMighty Joe Young (1949)
Mighty Joe Young is the film where Ray Harryhausen learned what he would spend the rest of his career doing. Willis O'Brien, the stop-motion pioneer who had created King Kong in 1933, was the credited animator.
1950sThe Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is the film that invented the modern atomic-age monster movie. The third act involves the rhedosaurus, a fictional dinosaur, attacking lower Manhattan and eventually being killed at Coney Island.