Bidding to be ‘The Russian Saving Private Ryan ’, Fedor Bondarchuk’s film loosely retells the true story of Pavlov’s House: a single platoon that managed to hold a building, 300 -style, for a year against waves of Nazis. It’s a cinematic no-brainer, of course, but one that is marred by …

Developed by Nintendo R&D1–the outfit later responsible for classics like Kid Icarus and Metroid–it featured now-iconic characters like Glass Joe and Bald Bull as well as lesser-known fighters like Pizza Pasta. It was also the first title with music by Koji Kondo, the composer of unforgettable Nintendo songs like the …

The Truman Show (1998) The Unlikely Leading Man: Rubber-faced goofball Jim Carrey, who’d previously spent most of his time in outlandish comedies like Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber. Here, he plays Truman, who’s the unwitting lead in a complex reality TV show. How He Got The Part: It was …