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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Is there a more recognizable brand on earth than Disney? The studio has, of course, gone far beyond the modest dreams of Walt and Roy Disney, who began the company 100 years ago sketching away in a ...

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 ...