Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.