10.28.2009 10:04 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A movie that was released earlier this year has become the third-highest grosser of all-time on the world box-office list, behind “Titanic” and “Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.” Can you guess what it is?
Nope, it’s not “Transformers: Revenge…
10.06.2009 2:54 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Anniversaries can lead to some lazy reporting (”Forty years after Woodstock, baby boomers wonder if all you need is love”); but in the video marketplace, anniversary years inspire big releases. Last week, there was the 70th-anniversary edition of “The Wizard…
06.02.2009 6:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It may be more than a year away, but the restless spirits at Pixar have released a teaser trailer for “Toy Story 3,” the animation studio’s follow-up to the current hit “Up.” Here it is:
“Toy…
06.01.2009 6:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Up,” which opened Friday, is the 10th release from the Pixar Animation Studio. The conventional wisdom is that Pixar has never made a bad movie. But which is the best?
12.17.2008 1:17 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Last Friday an animated movie called “Delgo” opened in theaters. It wasn’t exactly a limited release–it played on more than 2000 screens. But it earned less than half a million dollars, making it arguably the biggest flop in film history,…
03.20.2008 9:42 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Some Americans just won’t go see a movie with subtitles. And many of them are grown-ups who still watch cartoons. So for that particular demographic, an English-language version of the Oscar-nominated “Persepolis” is coming to theaters on April 11.
The animated…