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Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment announced today that they will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the beloved family blockbuster, Casper, with a nationwide rerelease beginning October 3 and running through Halloween, October 31, 2025.

Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Brad Silberling, the film stars Bill Pullman (Independence Day and Equalizer franchises) as Dr. Harvey, a ghost therapist, and two-time Emmy nominee Christina Ricci as his daughter Kat.

When they move into a drafty old mansion so that Dr. Harvey can exorcise the home’s otherworldly inhabitants, they meet a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper (voiced by Malachi Pearson), who’s just looking for a friend, and his outrageous uncles Stretch (Joe Nipote), Stinkie (Joe Alasky), and Fatso.

The film stars a powerhouse comedic cast including Garrett, Academy Award nominee Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull), Monty Python icon Eric Idle, and Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), as well as appearances from vintage TV...

If you showed someone the poster for "The Brave Little Toaster," you'd probably get one of two polar opposite reactions. Someone who's never seen this animated tale of a motley crew of abandoned, outdated appliances would think it's just another colorful kids cartoon. That little toaster is as adorable as he is brave, and so they would assume the film is similarly lighthearted. However, as anyone who actually sat down one fateful day in their childhood to watch the VHS version of "The Brave Little Toaster" will tell you, this thing is pure nightmare fuel.

If you're in the former camp, that might be hard to believe. After all, it's just a kids movie about a toaster, an electric blanket, a lamp, and a vacuum cleaner on a quest to be reunited with their owner. It's essentially the same plot as "Toy Story," right?

That comparison isn't completely unwarranted: "Toy Story...

Casper will celebrate its 30th anniversary with SteelBook and standard 4K Uhd + Blu-ray + Digital releases on August 12 via Universal.

Based on the classic Harvey Comics character created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo, the 1995 film is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Director Brian Silberling Revealing Casper – 2003 Making-Of Featurette with Cast and Crew Deleted Scene 7 Vintage Casper the Friendly Ghost Theatrical Shorts Casper’s Spree Under the Sea Once Upon a Rhyme Boo Hoo Baby To Boo or Not to Boo Boo Scout Spooking with a Brogue Penguin for Your Thoughts

Ghost therapist Dr. James Harvey is hired to exorcise Whipstaff Manor’s apparitions — a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper and his outrageous uncles Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso — so its greedy owner can get her hands on the house’s fabled treasures. Meanwhile, Casper finds a kindred spirit in Dr.

Original Final Destinationstar Devon Sawa celebrates one of his earliest feature film roles thirty years after its premiere.

On May 26, Sawa celebrated the thirty-year anniversary of 1995's Casper by sharing an image of the movie's original promo poster on Twitter. Although the post wasn't shared with any accompanying caption, the intent was perfectly clear, and fans responded in kind with an outpouring of love for the iconic film in the comments.

pic.twitter.com/nJg9XKUgrX— devon sawa (@DevonESawa) May 26, 2025

"Is this you reminding me that I’m old? I don’t appreciate this," one fan said in response to the post.

"Can't believe it's been 30 years," another fan said. "Still one of my favorite childhood movies!!!"

Another fan noted, "Need this on 4K! One of my favorites."

Casper Is Now 30 Years Old

Based on the beloved Harvey Comics cartoon character, Casper the Friendly Ghost, 1995's Casper was directed by...

Walt Disney brought in Steven Spielberg as a producer to turn Gary K. Wolf’s 1981 novel into Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988. Mark Sturdivant and Terry Gilliam were the initial choices for producer and director, however, they dropped out due to too much work. Spielberg’s addition brought his protege Robert Zemeckis into the film, who gained popularity in the Hollywood circles with his Back to the Future project.

A promotional poster of Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Walt Disney Pictures

Spielberg and Zemeckis’s successful collaboration in the film led the studio to plan another film. What they came up with was a prequel project that was set before the original, with the Nazis as the satirical villain. However, the Jaws director was not on board with the idea and Disney eventually shelved the film.

Steven Spielberg Refused To Do This Prequel Film Due to Schindler’s List A still...

The Ghostbusters have faced plenty of powerful foes, but one group in Casper proved too much for a Ghostbusters legend. Fans of Casper were pleasantly surprised by the unexpected cameos and pop culture references incorporated in the movie. Ghostbusters fans will get a kick out of seeing Dan Aykroyd making a playful cameo as Ray Stantz in the friendly ghost film.

One of the most iconic lines coming out of the theme song for the 1984 supernatural comedy Ghostbusters is “I ain’t afraid of no ghost.” While this was the extraordinary mantra that spurred the team of Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz, Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler, and Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore, there was also an equally important but underrated moment in movie history that turned this slogan entirely upside down. As the underrated scene would ultimately come to show, there were actually some...

Tom Ruegger wanted no part of a Tiny Toon Adventures spin-off. The animation vet had created the Tiny Toons — kids inspired by the original Looney Tunes characters, now learning comedy from Bugs Bunny and friends — but was already burnt out on them when he was asked if he could build a new show around Plucky Duck or one of Babs and Buster Bunny’s other classmates. “We’ve had it up to here with Tiny Toons,” Ruegger says he replied. “We’re about cooked on them. Let’s do some new stuff.

Finding Nemo encompasses a tremendous amount of positive imagery that makes up Disney and Pixar’s populous appeal. From learning how to trust family and friends, to overcoming biggest fears and obstacles, Finding Nemo understands how to tap into the audience’s heartstrings and neatly ties in a meaningful message for the viewer to take home. Yet with every good side, there is a dark presence that even Disney can’t back away from. Like many Disney films, from Bambi to Frozen, Finding Nemo deals with a story whose basis stems from a broken household struggling with a great deal of separation. Why does Disney cling onto threads of such despair and heartache? Perhaps it’s a factor many can relate to. Or perhaps it’s a working formula that sweetens the arc of a happy ending. Either way, separation is a tapped fountain of which Hollywood has dipped into time after time again.

The Brave Little Toaster

Directed by Jerry Rees

Written by Jerry Rees and Joe Ranft

Starring Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, Thurl Ravenscroft

Originality is so rare these days that we latch onto anything that doesn’t smell of being laughably, obviously derivative. Of course, when I say “we,” I mean film buffs because there’s no denying that the latest Transformers film, the third film in a franchise of movies based on a line of toys that inspired a 1980s-era cartoon, is nowhere near original yet made an insane amount of money at the worldwide box office. So not everyone craves originality all of the time. But even the masses crave it enough that when a movie comes along that presents something unique, whether it’s a story, a character, or a new world, we salivate over it like a dog in front of a steak.

And so it is...

Let’s face it. We can’t hide it. We all have those movies that we like that others would shun. These are guilty pleasures: the ones that aren’t that great but we love for some reason or another. Here are mine. Be sure to list yours in the comments, if you’d like.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Rotten Tomatoes: 38%

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O’Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance

Director: John McTiernan/Writers: Shane Black and David Arnott

Here’s the thing: I will defend this movie’s concept till Doomsday. A movie about a kid with a magic ticket that gets pulled into an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? Genius concept. Yes, the kid is annoying. Yes, the movie doesn’t reach the heights of a McTiernan/Black team-up as well as one might think. It’s interesting to note that McTiernan isn’t working as much...