this week on 100 Films

Two new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Man of Steel (2013)

Produced by Christopher Nolan and other creatives behind the uber-successful Batman reboot The Dark Knight Trilogy, this is intended to do a similar thing for Superman: a present-day, real-world relaunch. Which begins with a huge sequence on a crazy alien world. Well done, chaps. And that’s before we get into the merits of grounding clean-cut Boy’s Own all-American hero Superman in our ideologically complex modern world. Is that what Superman is?

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Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)

"From 1984 to 1994, a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever."

So declares the title card at the start of this documentary, which covers how in just a few years Disney went from nearly shutting down its animation division to a period of immense critical acclaim and box office success

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More next Sunday.