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Walt Disney Studios

Nearly 25 years after the release of their first feature film, Pixar is still going strong, creating animated movies that stir critics and audiences alike on a regular basis.

Rebecca Pahle








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