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 ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda concludes his domination of 2021 movie musicals with the droll, vibrant “Encanto.” Following “In the Heights,” which he wrote and appeared in, and the animated “Vivo,” in which he ...

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first film’s release, TBS and Cartoon Network present “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses,” the ultimate Harry Potter trivia competition. Academy Award ...

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 ...

#shorts Welcome to our movie reaction video for ENCANTO (2021)! In this exciting video, we'll be delving into the magical world of Encanto and sharing our thoughts and emotions surrounding the film.

In the picture’s most touching moments, the film showcases the truly original character of Mirabel (voiced by Stephanie Beatriz), a teenage Colombian girl without a “gift” in a family full of gifted ...

2021 was, as far as years go, not the best. But it was an exemplary year for animation, an artform that broadened the kind of stories it told and embraced new aesthetic tools to tell those stories.

Sunday Writethru final with chart: As is typical, the weekend following the Thanksgiving stretch is a downer. And even duly so over omicron headlines, coupled with a Disney animated movie that isn’t ...

CHICAGO - 2021 may not have been a year worth singing about, but it was certainly a year with no shortage of singing. Movie musicals were a massive trend this year, from big showy theatrical events ...