Thursday, Jun. 29, 2023

We landlubbers have gotten it all wrong: Kraken aren't terrible monsters from the sea who destroy our sailing ships and munch on our sailors. They're kind and helpful. It's the mermaids who are the real demons.

That's the upside-down premise to DreamWorks Animation's sweet "Ruby Gillman,...

Saturday, Apr. 11, 2020

Music snobbery is making a comeback.

On the heels of the excellent serial remake of "High Fidelity," about a tasteful Brooklyn record store owner, comes "Trolls World Tour," in which different pixie clans each representing a music genre vie for sonic domination. Both are quaint in their...

Thursday, Sep. 26, 2019

"Abominable" is just about the most cuddly piece of East-West synergy a corporation could dream up.

The first co-production between DreamWorks Animation and the Shanghai-based Pearl Studios (formerly known as Oriental DreamWorks), "Abominable" is a rare kind of creature but the sort we're...

Thursday, Mar. 30, 2017

Some of the best animated films have been inspired by fairy tales, ancient Greek fables or mythology. Now comes one clearly inspired by, of all people, David Mamet.

The creators of "The Boss Baby " have obviously been mining the playwright's gritty, foul-mouthed "Glengarry Glen Ross" to...

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