Keyword: castle
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Beauty and the Beast
Every so often an animation film comes along that refuses to be filed away neatly, and Beauty and the Beast is exactly that kind of stubborn, memorable outlier. The film’s own tagline — “The most beautiful love story ever told.” — tells you almost everything about the tone it’s going for. Here’s the hook, in…
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Howl’s Moving Castle
There’s a reason Howl’s Moving Castle keeps resurfacing in conversations about the best adventure films of its era: it simply refuses to be dated. Even the marketing knew what it had: the tagline “Love Comes First.” sets the mood before a single frame plays. At its core, the plot goes like this: Sophie, a young…
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Shrek
Word of mouth is a strange thing, and “Shrek” from 2001 is exactly the kind of film that earns it one recommendation at a time. It is easy to see why it keeps getting recommended long after its initial release. Everything the film wants you to feel is right there in its tagline: “The greatest…