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Warner Bros.

Before there was ‘The Batman' or ‘The Dark Knight,’ Tim Burton and Michael Keaton were reinventing the comic book movie genre with this 1989 blockbuster.

Matthew Jackson




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Since being killed off in one of the most brutal death scenes in 'Game of Thrones' history, Richard Madden has won a Golden Globe for 'Bodyguard,' starred in 'Rocketman,' and become a front-runner for taking over the role of James Bond. Not bad.

Natalie Zamora




© 2004 Twentieth Century Fox

ChapStick, llamas, and tater tots are just a few things that appear in Napoleon Dynamite, a cult film shot for a mere $400,000 that went on to gross $44.5 million.

Garin Pirnia
Richard Roundtree stars in Shaft (1971).

On July 2, 1971, moviegoers caught their first glimpse of Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, the "black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks."

Kristin Hunt
















Touchstone Pictures

Robin Williams's portrayal of John Keating was one of his iconic roles, and this drama about boys at a prep school in 1959 still endures.

Joy Lanzendorfer
Warner Home Video

Though much has been written about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most entertaining look at the master composer's life might very well be Amadeus, Milos Forman's 1984 film about the artist's life (and rivalries).

Erika Berlin