FictionMachine

A teenage girl obsessed with imagination and fantasy angrily wishes for her baby brother to be spirited away by goblins – only to discover goblins have done exactly as she asks. To rescue her brother she must make her way through an elaborate m

"We're being kept here to die" | The Ruins (2008)

Jun 28th, 2015 18m 5s

Ben Stiller is a noted writer, director and performer of Hollywood comedies, who has headlined such blockbuster hits as There’s Something About Mary (1998), Zoolander (2001) and Tropic Thunder (2008). He is not necessarily the first name to spr

"You do it because you're driven" | Speed Racer (2008)

Jun 18th, 2015 26m 51s

In May 2008 Warner Bros released the glossy and expensive action film Speed Racerinto cinemas around the world. Directed by Andy and Lana Wachowski, it was a live-action adaptation of a once-popular children’s cartoon made on a US$130 million d

“Do I look like I give a damn?” | Casino Royale (2006)

May 27th, 2015 33m 14s

James Bond, the British MI6 agent created by author Ian Fleming, is the star of pretty much the world’s most commercially successful movie franchise. Since 1962 the character has headlined 23 feature films, not including two rogue production

"Trees and people used to be good friends" | My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

Apr 9th, 2015 17m 28s

Japanese animation turns 100 years old in 2017. The art form initially flourished in 1917, as animators including Oten Shimokawa and Seitarou Kitayama produced short comedic films that ran for only a few minutes each. While the vast majority

"Something new can come into this world" | John Carter (2012)

Mar 8th, 2015 1h 8m

Mention the name Edgar Rice Burroughs to many people and they’ll immediately recognise him as the creator of Tarzan, the popular pulp hero of novels and film who endured throughout the 20th century as one of the world’s most popular fictiona

"This is true love" | The Princess Bride (1987)

Feb 12th, 2015 26m 31s

‘As a writer,’ said William Goldman, ‘the only book I really like is The Princess Bride.'Goldman’s original take on the classical fairy tale was first published in 1973. The book in itself is a literary classic, and wonderful to read. It is

"Its a thousand years to Christmas" | Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Jan 23rd, 2015 16m 59s

In the late 1970s Walt Disney Studios entered one of their most unusual periods, eschewing their standard family films for darker and more risky projects. The period saw the company experiment with science fiction in The Black Hole and Tron,

"Well of course we talk, don't everybody?" | Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Jan 11th, 2015 30m 11s

It would seem that good musicals require good partnerships to succeed, and if that is true then the best partnership of all time is arguably that of Gene Kelly, co-director Stanley Donen, and producer Arthur Freed. In one combination or anot

"A fuzzy blue Charles Dickens" | The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Dec 23rd, 2014 28m 13s

A Christmas Carol has remained popular since publication, and has subsequently been adapted for theatre, opera, television and, ofcourse, motion pictures. The first film adaptation was Scrooge, or, Marley’s Ghost, ashort film produced in L

"Let her be mine and mine alone" | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Dec 18th, 2014 26m 44s

In 1996 Walt Disney Pictures released the animated musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on the Victor Hugo novel and directed by Gary Trousale and Kirk Wise. It remains one of the strangest and most distinctive films in Disney's history.

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