Toy Story 2: Love or Immortality
Photo: Pixar In the beginning, no one intended this film to be a theatrical follow-up to Toy Story (1995), the groundbreaking movie that made Pixar famous. The idea was to…
Toy Story: Beginning a New Era
Photo: Pixar Who would have thought back in 1995 that computer-animated films would revolutionize the industry? After all, Disney's hand-drawn The Lion King was still a sensational hit and most…
Band of Brothers: Memories of Hell
Photo: HBO The original quote from William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall…
Forrest Gump: The Curious Case of an Alabama Simpleton
Tom Hanks. Photo: Paramount When I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button a few months ago, I never thought about Forrest Gump, but many others did. One of them even produced a trailer…
John Adams: The Reluctant VP
Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti. Photo: HBO Sometimes there are discrepancies between filmmakers and the people hired to market their work. The tagline of this ambitious HBO miniseries has nothing…
Cast Away: Me, Myself & Wilson
Tom Hanks. Photo: 20th Century Fox We’ve all watched too many episodes of Survivor to have a realistic idea of what it would be like to be stranded on a…
The Polar Express
Late on Christmas Eve, a boy who doesn’t believe in Santa anymore wakes up to see the Polar Express just outside his house; it’s headed for Santa’s home. The first…