![Beauty and the Beast: Staggeringly Beautiful, They Kept The Best & Fixed The Rest [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/615film.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/landscape-1478512906-beauty-and-the-beast-movie.jpg?resize=640%2C320&ssl=1)
by Mark Miller | Mar 20, 2017
I don’t get Disney’s current trend of remaking old animation classics into Live Action films. Why is that necessary? Maleficent was fun, it’s true, but that was told with a more sympathetic twist to the villain, which I love (plus the old Sleeping Beauty was badly...
![Beauty and the Beast: A Creditable Live-Action Remake of a Beloved Classic [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/615film.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BATB.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
by Sean Atkins | Mar 15, 2017
The original Beauty and the Beast, the 1991 animated version, is one of the five best animated movies of all-time; it was so good that it became the first ever animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture by the Academy Awards. With movie studios going through...
by Keven Skinner | Nov 14, 2016
From Walt Disney Pictures and director Bill Condon, comes the live-action remake of the animated 1991 classic Beauty and The Beast. Composer Alan Menken, who won two Academy Awards working on the original, is also returning. Emma Watson and Dan Stevens will play the...
![The Girl on the Train: Skip this Ride and Read the Novel Instead [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/615film.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the-girl-on-the-train-movie1.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
by Sean Atkins | Oct 5, 2016
Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel works so well thanks to its balance of character study and mystery thrills. Sure, adapting a novel into a movie is no simple task, as certain aspects of the novel are constrained or changed due to budget and run time. But with The...
