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The Incredibles -- A Now Playing Bonus Review

Now Playing Presents: The Gremlins Retrospective Series - February 27, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Pixar films including Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo, had been smash hits. But could this success that worked on toys, fish, bugs, and beasts, work for a movie starring a roster of human characters? That was the risk they took with The Incredibles -- Pixar's first superhero film. T...

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Now Playing Presents: The Gremlins Retrospective Series - February 24, 2015 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
An undercover police officer infiltrates a group of thieves, but can he resist the lure of the subculture and do his duty? No, we're not talking the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze film Point Break--we're reviewing the 2001 car racing film The Fast and The Furious. Starring Vin Diesel, fresh off th...

Gremlins 2

Now Playing Presents: The Gremlins Retrospective Series - December 31, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
It may only take a drop of water to make a new gremlin, but it took six years and a slew of writers, directors, and concepts to make a new Gremlins film. Finally original director Joe Dante returned in 1990 to give us Gremlins 2: The New Batch. With a gang of genetically modified gremlins takin...

Gremlins

Now Playing Presents: The Gremlins Retrospective Series - December 24, 2013 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In the mid 1980s there was no bigger name in film than Steven Spielberg. As a director he had a string of major hits, including E.T. which became the top grossing film of all time. Even films he didn't direct but only produced, such as Poltergeist and The Goonies, benefited from having his name...