The Iron Giant's "The Giant's Dream" deleted scene adds essential context to the Giant's backstory. Without "The Giant's Dream" sequence, the Giant's arc from gun to superhero lacks crucial emotional ...

The Iron Giant was designed to be a killing machine by forces we never see in the movie, and it was only because he bumped ...

Nowadays, superhero movies are more common than most other Hollywood blockbusters. That wasn’t the case in 1999. Back then, not only were comic book films still few and far between but good ones were ...

Brad Bird was a gigging animator and a future Pixar powerhouse when he conceived of The Iron Giant, a Cold War sci-fi tale set in a small East Coast coastal town that showed a relationship between ...

I may write about movies and TV shows for a living, but there’s only so much time in the day to watch things, and inevitably I’ll miss out on certain big and small screen hits. For example, while I’d ...