Beauty and the Beast (1991)
A key entry in the Disney revival of the 1990s, Beauty and the Beast retells the old French fairytale, originally written centuries before, to a new generation. Paige O’Hara voices Belle, a provincial French...
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Big Hero 6 (2014)
Like most superhero projects that are put up on the big screen, Disney’s Big Hero 6 has its origins from the world of comic books, though this take is very loosely adapted from its inception in...
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
One of the more overlooked gems in Harrison Ford’s (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) career, The Mosquito Coast gives the perennial everyman hero personality the chance to branch out by playing...
Click (2006)
There is probably no film this year I’ll struggle with in terms of how I feel about it than Click, a mix of surprisingly mature comedy mixed jarringly with downright juvenile moments of gross-out gags. ...
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Very loosely based on the classic Jules Verne novel, and made into a movie more than once already (most notably in 1956 with David Niven), Around the World in 80 Days is an old-fashioned adventure in...
Batman Forever (1995)
It’s not that the Batman series has run out of ideas by this point, it’s just that the makers of Batman Forever have no idea where to look for inspiration. Tim Burton gives up the directorial reins to...
Wild Wild West (1999)
Wild Wild West casts Will Smith as Black gunslinger Jim West and Kevin Kline as genius inventor US Marshal Artemus Gordon, who try to stop a nefarious plot by bitter Confederate soldier named Arliss...
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
A hotshot inventor (Scott, Big Night) has found a way to make the corporation he works for millions, but he fears that he will not be fully compensated for all of the good things he brings...
Gremlins (1984)
In Gremlins, an inventor (Axton, We’re No Angels) buys a strange but infinitely cute pet for his son (Galligan, Waxwork) while in a small curio shop in the Orient. This creature is called a “Mogwai” and caring for it...