My Q&A with Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, the directors of one of this year’s Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films – “Borrowed Time”. Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written nearly 1,000 reviews of new releases. […]
This week’s “The LEGO Batman Movie” is the first of an anticipated 16 mainstream animated movies set to be released this year. Here’s a look at the lineup: Feb. 10 – “THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE” Studio: Warner Bros. Voice Cast: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis Story in a Sentence: The miniature version of The […]
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) coming out of self-imposed exile and on a collision course with deadly Xiang. (PARAMOUNT) Vin Diesel is best known for his roles in the acclaimed 1999 animated film “The Iron Giant”, the 2005 Disney family comedy “The Pacifier”, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the “Fast […]
Tom Hanks and Ron Howard’s “Da Vinci Code” threequel, “Inferno”, stunningly lost at the box office to “Boo! A Madea Halloween” (in its 2nd week) over the weekend. “Inferno” becomes this year’s latest unsuccessful attempt to bring a fading or forgotten movie franchise back to life: “ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE” Previous Installment: “Ice Age: Continental […]
“The Little Prince”, a co-American/French animated feature based on the classic 1943 children’s book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, proves that animation remains one of the most powerful forms of cinematic storytelling. Directed by Mark Osborne (“Kung Fu Panda”) and featuring a stellar, star-studded voice cast, this is a magical gem. Paramount was originally on track […]
With this week’s release of “Ice Age: Collision Course”, this 20th Century FOX/Blue Sky Studios animated franchise becomes the first in theatrical movie history to release five installments, with none of them being spinoffs. Spanning 14 years, with predecessors in ’02, ’06, ’09 and ’12, the “Ice Age” series is closing-in on $3 Billion worldwide, […]
For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. (UNIVERSAL) Louis C.K. (NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”, FX’s “Louie”) leads the voice cast. Kevin Hart is the popular comic actor known […]
Pixar’s breakthrough concept 21 years ago: What do toys do all day while their owners go to school or work? The latest feature from Illumination Entertainment, the creators of “Despicable Me”, poses the similar question: What do pets do all day while their owners are away from home? The answer is revealed early on in […]
Disney has won the Best Animated Feature Oscar for the past four years – twice under Disney Animation Studios (“Frozen”, “Big Hero 6”) and twice with Pixar (“Brave”, “Inside Out”). This year, The Mouse House is behind THREE potential nominees. Two of them, “Zootopia” and “Finding Dory”, have been box office and critical juggernauts and […]
From the Academy Award®–winning creators of Disney•Pixar’s Finding Nemo (Best Animated Feature, 2003) comes an epic undersea adventure filled with imagination, humor and heart. When Dory, the forgetful blue tang (Ellen DeGeneres), suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) take off on […]