After creating what many critics have called one of the best film trilogies ever made, why would Disney/Pixar go about creating yet another chapter to the Toy Story franchise? While it may appear to be a simple cash grab, it seems like the animation crew had one more story to tell after all and boy am I glad that they
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The sci-fi/cop/comedy franchise known as Men in Black has always traveled a wavy road. The original which came out in 1997 and starred Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith got huge accolades despite that it included a lot of gross or disturbing physical gags. When the second chapter arrived in 2002, the gross humor got worse and so did the
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Will you like X-Men: Dark Phoenix? I guess that depends on what you are expecting to get out of it. Overall, the reception from various X-Men movies that have been released since 2000 have been all over the board from “really good” to “what the heck just happened?” Just like the first go around of X-Men stories, the “first class”
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One of the best things about Disney reimagining their great animated movies into live action films is seeing how each of the writers and directors put their unique spin on the stories. It’s got to be a scary thing to try to reproduce a Disney classic in a new, fresh way that fans will accept. Sometimes it’s done well, like
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Over the years Diane Keaton has portrayed different female characters in different stages of life. She was J.C. Wiatt, the strong, powerful businesswoman who became a reluctant adopted mother in Baby Boom (1987); Nina Banks the loving, devoted wife and gushing mother in Father of the Bride (1991); Annie MacDuggan Paradis, a bitter divorcee in First Wives Club (1996) and
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When Disney first considered creating a live action remake of its own 1941 animated cartoon, Dumbo many people questioned the reasoning behind hiring Tim Burton to serve as the director. The elephant with big ears is one of mouse house’s gentlest characters of all time and it seemed strange that the man behind such odd movies as Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow
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