“Volcano” (1997) picks a smart topic to take advantage of how the burgeoning tech of CGI can work well in a disaster movie. Slow (yet
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After the surprisingly good Universal Monsters remake “The Mummy” (1999), “The Mummy Returns” (2001) isn’t wildly different in any particular area, yet it stands as
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In his 2004 commentary track for 1974’s “Young Frankenstein,” Mel Brooks notes that it’s his best pure film – in the sense that it’s not
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