Animated Films

Kavi, Miracle Fish, The New Tenants, and the Rest of This Year's Oscar-Nominated Live-Action and Animated Shorts

Top 10 Geek Obsessions of the Decade

Doomsayers and the easily fooled are focused on 2012 right now (so much so that poor NASA had to issue statements debunking the movie myths). But we've got a different date in mind: 2010. The New Year begins the end of an era. Well, a decade actually. Technology has certainly advanced in ... More >>

9: Wall-E Would Never Escape Shane Acker’s Animated, Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape

Doomsayers and the easily fooled are focused on 2012 right now (so much so that poor NASA had to issue statements debunking the movie myths). But we've got a different date in mind: 2010. The New Year begins the end of an era. Well, a decade actually. Technology has certainly advanced in ... More >>

Eating Spinach Makes You Strong to the Finish

Doomsayers and the easily fooled are focused on 2012 right now (so much so that poor NASA had to issue statements debunking the movie myths). But we've got a different date in mind: 2010. The New Year begins the end of an era. Well, a decade actually. Technology has certainly advanced in ... More >>

Up Soars In Entirely Unexpected Ways

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Monsters vs. Aliens: In the Latest Round of Effects Versus Storytelling, Effects Win Big

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Cosplay: An excuse for adults to play dress-up (outside the bedroom)

Shh... Today, dear readers, I'm going to let you in on a little geek secret: We self-proclaimed nerds, geeks and dorks have an internal rating system. Think of it as a 1-10 scale of geekdom, with 1 being the girl who wears a bowl cut and plastic glasses i ... More >>

Waltz with Bashir Is a Remarkable Bubbling Up of Repressed Violence

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DreamWorks Animation's Jeffrey Katzenberg's Cure-All for an Ailing Movie Economy is 3D

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Disney’s Bolt Is a Starry Dog Story

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The latest and greatest Dr. Seuss adaptation

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Final Cut

The very, very best of 2007

Honey for Nothing

No wonder all the bees are dying

Some Maja videos for yo’ ass

No wonder all the bees are dying

Big on Japan

Maja gives anime and gaming a good rap

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Incredible, Edible

Health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core

Ogreload

Third time’s the charmless

Dance of the Penguin

That whole talking-animal genre? Let's be done with it

Ant Wussy

Get out the magnifying glass. It's time to burn a game

A Bug's Strife

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Turning Japanese

Like the anime, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja is goofy fun

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

In 'Toon

Here, the shorts are the feature

Drawn That Way

AniZona 01: Watch line drawings of teenaged martial arts masters kicking heck out of demonic entities

Losing Steam

Mostly hot air, despite its creator's pedigree

Talkin' 'Bot Love

Like Big Fish for little kids

Horse Senseless

Racing Stripes is strictly for kids. Actually, it's not for them, either

Super, Ordinary

The Incredibles gives a human face to animated superheroes

Shell Shock

The sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a feast for the eyes, but a disappointment for the brain

Draggin' Tale

AIDS Walk benefit draws ladies and gent

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

AIDS Walk benefit draws ladies and gent

Seuss on the Loose

One act two acts fun acts new acts

Yearning Japanese

A talking hand, a vampire hybrid and the exquisitely dark fantasy of Bloodlust

Depth Charge

Spectacular new IMAX process plunges viewers into the thick of Cyberworld 3D

Suspended Animation

When Pearse Cullinane left Dublin to work for Fox Animation Studios in Phoenix, he hadn't counted on losing his rights in a right-to-work state. These days the only line he's drawing is in the sand.

Toy Story

The creators of Chicken Run find soul in a lump of clay

Maim That Toon!

Titan A.E., made in Phoenix, brings new blood to movie animation

Princess Broods

An agile teen battles the forces of evil in the Japanese blockbuster Princess Mononoke

Mr. Nuts and Bolts

An agile teen battles the forces of evil in the Japanese blockbuster Princess Mononoke

Toons of Glory

Don't cel Spike & Mike's Classic animation festival short

Feat of Clay

Wallace and Gromit filmmakers tackle Gumby Noir

Caviar Emptor

Anastasia fails to revolutionize animation