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One, released 20 years ago, captured a singular, distinctive voice. The other, released 25 years ago, was the very definition of a group effort. Yet each are among Pixar’s finest and most beloved works.

‘Saw’ (released 20 years ago this week) launched a franchise, a genre, and several careers. It’s also endearingly bad. 

With Toho’s Godzilla turning 70, here’s a look at how it became the giant, radioactive monster that could.

Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.

Back in the day, Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs, if you like)  were event television for the preteen set. During […]

A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.

In 1949, Walt Disney and his animators wrapped up their package era with a two-short feature that’s still got the capacity to terrify 75 years later.

On the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s bonkers biopic, a celebration of the Oscar-winning work of Martin Landau.

A half century after its release, Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic remains the definitive big-screen take on Hercule Poirot.

Milos Forman’s masterful biopic paints a complex portrait of Mozart as a man of both heart and genius.

The quintessential opening song and credits sequence for the third James Bond film were the most crucial piece that helped establish the franchise for decades.