Tag: 5 Star Video

An odd outlier in Disney's past, Black Cauldron stands out as an inventive if all too brief animated fantasy in an era with plenty of similar offerings.

Although Mel Brooks refined his comedy style in time, The Producers is still one of the most inspired film comedies ever made.

A smart western slaughter, Django upends the usual hero role for someone who must face his actions in doing right.

Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments remains one of the most important and successful Hollywood epics ever devised.

A wonderful adaptation of the children's story, The Little Prince uses dazzling stop-motion animation and tender themes about childhood and growing up.

The Croods: A New Age doesn't aim to try anything new, but tells a familiar story in a fun, expedient way.

Jiyang Ziya is a beautifully animated Chinese fantasy epic with strong characters and Hollywood polish.

Danny Kaye leads the gorgeously restored and superb musical comedy from Hollywood's Golden Age, The Court Jester.

The storied franchise makes the leap to 3D CD animation with fantastic results in this big-budget theatrical movie, Lupin III: The First.

At times comical, campy, and absurd, Buried Alive still cleverly finds a sharp metaphor for a changing social dynamic.

While overburdened with schmaltz and coated nostalgic, Cinema Paradiso finds new meaning amid a changing movie marketplace.

Unrelenting in exposing Japan's social ills, Black Rain looks at not only the physical tragedy of Hiroshima, but the mental and isolation terrors too.