Cruise’s presence is the most interesting thing about a film that is otherwise much too full of itself.
- Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster
He-man only pokes fun at parts of itself and is uneven as a result.
In the right context, films can move across many different genres in the span of their lifetime, depending on the audiences that watch them.
A story about reframing your view on life and finding a lot to live for.
It can feel daunting for modern film fans to know where to start with curating their taste.
The show fails to make us connect with the Schwoopers whose problems end up seeming small and insignificant.
Why does Hollywood persist in making Christmas action movie stinkers when so many of us enjoy cheesy romance and cosy comforting fare during the holiday season?
It Happened One Night is one of only three films to nab the Oscar “big five”, winning prizes for best actor, actress, adapted screenplay, director and picture.
Cary Grant’s films offer complicated and contrasting visions of what it means to be a man.
Cinderella has been taken further and further away from its origins that we forget it was originally a radical story about female desire, servitude and violence.
Since medieval times, animals have been used by storytellers to teach humans about themselves.
More than a decade before Snow White, Lotte Reiniger was pioneering revolutionary animation ideas – now they are being rediscovered.
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