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All the Ways The Iron Giant Could’ve Been Very Different
In the nearly 25 years since the release of Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant, the film’s history has become legend. Though it’s now considered a classic, when it came out the film bombed at the box office largely because the studio releasing it, Warner Bros., didn’t quite know what it had. That narrative has changed…
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The Major Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anniversaries of Spring 2021
All year we’ve been tracking which big sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films are celebrating milestone anniversaries over the course of 2021 and now we’ve come to the end of our journey. In the summer, it was movies like Highlander and Attack the Block. During the autumn, it was Willy Wonka and Raiders of the Lost…
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Incredibles 2 Is A Super Sequel That Was Absolutely Worth The Wait
The Parrs are back in Brad Bird’s Incredibles 2. Incredibles 2 takes everything you love about the Oscar-winning original and flips it on its head. The result is a highly-entertaining, slightly familiar tale with bigger action, interesting subtext, and all the smarts, heart, and laughs you could ask for. It’s Pixar doing what Pixar does…
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Ratatouille’s Best Scene Proves That, Sometimes, Live-Action Just Can’t Surpass Animation
Ten years ago today, a movie about a rat chef was released in US theatres. Very quickly, audiences fell in love with it, it made a ton of money, and eventually it won the Oscar for Best Animated Film. Brad Bird’s Ratatouille remains a unique, animated marvel, but its true greatness can boiled down to…