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Disney’s remake of “Pete’s Dragon” looks more like “How to Train Your Dragon” or “The Jungle Book” than the original musical version with Helen Reddy.

Movies are short. They have to fit a whole story into a space that is usually just 90-120 minutes. So every single detail on the screen has to deliver information. This is a great explanation of how our first view of a character can tell us not just about the character but about the world …

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For more than 100 years, movies have been offending someone, and no group has spent more time on the front lines of “decency” battles than the Catholic Legion of Decency, later renamed the National Legion of Decency. They went all the way to the Supreme Court to argue for the right to ban films deemed …

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Fandango Movieclips asked kids to explain the stories of the Oscar-nominated films and it is adorable. I’d actually prefer some of their versions to the films that were actually made.