CHICAGO - Animated movies exist both to comfort us and challenge us — sometimes at the same time. Despite the hurdles of the pandemic, 2021 delivered a great slate of animated features aimed at ...

Disney-Pixar’s Luca was the most-streamed movie of 2021 in the U.S., with 10.6 billion minutes of viewing time. The film skipped its theatrical release and was released straight to Disney+ last June.

CHICAGO - As just about any parent will tell you, family entertainment was a sanity-saver in 2021. So it’s a good thing there was so much of it! The Mouse House was a major contender this year, as ...

Outside of the beloved work by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, anime can get a bad rap among the hardcore cinema crowd. It also doesn’t usually carry the same quality connotations as a bonafide ...

Without any new releases to pose a threat, Disney‘s animated musical fable “Encanto” has again notched the No. 1 spot on domestic box office charts. In its second weekend of release, “Encanto” has ...