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Sophie Scholl is one of a very few films that accomplishes one of the rarest and most valuable of cinematic achievements: It makes heroic goodness not just admirable, but attractive and interesting.
Is The Da Vinci Code anti-Catholic? Well, if it isn’t, then we must simply conclude that no such thing as anti-Catholicism exists, or at least that no anti-Catholic movie has ever been made.
Special Edition — At once intelligent and campy, Forbidden Planet is an intriguing, perhaps overrated sci-fi classic that borrows plot points from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and strongly anticipates “Star Trek” in its sci-fi milieu — but its driving fears are the “monsters from the id,” the wayward, concupiscent passions of our own hearts.
Special Edition — The great difference between the man and the movie is that Duncan’s character never asked or wanted to be anything special, yet he was; while The Green Mile desperately wants to be important, meaningful, and uplifting, and it isn’t.
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Though Flushed Away is yet another CGI cartoon in this year of an unprecedented glut of CGI cartoons, look at the eyes, and you’ll see the unmistakable family resemblance to Wallace, Gromit and all those bunnies from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, not to mention the fowl protagonists — and fouler chicken farmers — of Chicken Run.