Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Photo: Universal Robert Zemeckis’s highly entertaining Romancing the Stone (1984) obviously borrowed a lot from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), even if its hero…
We're in the middle of the last ice age; a mammoth, a sloth and a saber-toothed tiger with a hidden agenda try to bring a human baby back to its…
Photo: DreamWorks Here’s a few numbers for you: 2.8 tons of Plasticine in 42 colors were used for the characters and the miniature sets, of which there were 30; it…
Another well-made, visually impressive film from Pixar, this time about a community of monsters in a city whose power supply consists of screams from children who have encountered the monsters…
Photo: Pixar In 1999, there was a film called The Iron Giant. It was an animated tale about a boy who ran into a being from outer space, a gigantic…
In my opinion, a bug’s life and its same-year rival Antz are equally good, but this one might appeal more to kids. Conceived with plenty of imagination, this is a…