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Now/then, now/then… The past and the present exist in perpetual tension in the gory second sequel to Danny Boyle's zombie horror franchise. "Time didn't heal anything," goes the tagline, and as we learned from the recent pandemic, mankind isn't always prepared for the worst. By far the most…

F1: The Movie starts, ominously enough, with the black Warner Bros logo, which suggests it's going the be The Dark Knight Rises of sports movies. But although it never really relaxes into the fun, '60s-style Paul Newman picture it might have been, F1…

The latest animation from Pixar has been in the pipe for quite some time, and while that's not so strange for such a labor-intensive production, it's telling that the finished version bears little resemblance, story-wise, to the film promised by the…

You could be forgiven for thinking Little Amélie is some sort of prequel to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's delightfully French 2001 fantasy Amélie. Instead, this animated feature from Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han is delightfully French in a different kind of way, perfect for sensitive adults and…

In Fixed, premiering at the Annecy International Festival of Animation in France, Netflix has a nice feature film companion piece for its oh-so-adult animation shows like Big Mouth. This one about a pooch named Bull fetting over the imminent loss of his doggie testicles — or so he thinks — is in the…

The sunny strip-mall mundanity of Southern California's San Gabriel Valley is the fascinating setting for Eric Lin's dark directorial debut, the unsettling and not entirely successful story of a widow struggling with her son's mental illness. Based…

Don’t be confused by the title. The new French animated film Arco that debuted at Cannes in May and is at France’s Annecy Animated Film Festival this week is not about a gas station. Instead, this debut feature film from illustrator and graphic…

Sylvain Chomet, the great French animation filmmaker, started his movie career with a short called The Old Lady and the Pigeons, which won a BAFTA and the Grand Prize at the 1997 Annecy Animation Film Festival and got an Oscar nomination. He followed…

Watching writer-director Celine Song’s follow-up to her feature debut, indie darling and 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee Past Lives, all sorts of supposed cinematic influences ran through my mind from Billy Wilder’s The Apartment to James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl and…

George Orwell had a unique talent for predicting the future in his books, notably 1984, but now seeing director Andy Serkis’ new animated take on Orwell’s 1945 all-too-predictive allegory and satirical story, Animal Farm, he seems more like a Nostradamus than ever. With a screenplay, alternately…

Fifteen years and some change after Universal and DreamWorks launched the first of its three successful animated How to Train Your Dragon movies, their live-action remake, complete with CGI dragons, cruises along with a nice tailwind from 2010's first adaptation of Cressida Cowell's books, which…

Six-time Oscar nominated writer/director/producer Jim Sheridan has tackled a variety of films in his storied career, which includes My Left Foot, The Boxer, In The Name Of The Father, In America, The Field, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ and numerous others…