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The best children's movies have always had something for adults too, from Warner Bros.' wisecracking Looney Toons to "Shrek's" scatological humor to the sophisticated storylines and sumptuous visuals of the Disney/Pixar empire...Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson...
Tags: Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Maurice Sendak, Roald Dahl, says anderson, Los Angeles
Adapted from the famous Roald Dahl children’s book, Fox is a furious underground group dig that plays out like what we’d imagine a Terry Gilliam cartoon to look like. The stop-motion animation, reminiscent of Aardman Studio’s Wallace & Gromit cartoons,...
Tags: Roald Dahl, Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson, Santa Barbara, Allison Abbate, Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox, George Clooney, American film directors, Entertainment Culture, Noah Baumbach
Fantastic Mr. Fox is the most pleasant out-of-the-ochre surprise of the year. First-time full-feature animator Wes Anderson makes the fur fly and bristle and blow using painstaking stop-motion animation with puppets (or figurines) and without benefit...
Tags: Mr. Fox, Hollywood, Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl, United Kingdom, London, Novellas, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Animation, films, Stop motion, Entertainment Culture, Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox" may be the perfect kids' movie for grown-ups. Whether it's the perfect kids' movie for kids is a more complex question, but any parent who has endured repeat DVD viewings of "Barbie: Fairytopia" will leave the theater giddy with delight....
Tags: Wes Anderson, Mr. Fox, Fort Myers, Fantastic Mr. Fox, films, American film directors, Entertainment Culture, Roald Dahl, Fictional foxes, Animation, Fox, Noah Baumbach, Fox television network, Fox Broadcasting Company
Critics trot out the synonyms for "playful" and "odd" when talking about Wes Anderson. A 40-year-old director of wistful character comedies peopled with lovable screwballs -- "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" -- he brings it all on himself, inviting...
Tags: Roald Dahl, Mr. Fox, wild animation, loved stories, United Kingdom, Boston, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson, Absurdist fiction, Entertainment Culture
New Moon" will fade over the long Thanksgiving weekend, but it still has a virtual lock on No...While three movies -- "Old Dogs," "Ninja Assassin," and "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" -- are opening or expanding nationwide on today, the biggest story will be...
Tags: New Moon, Los Angeles, Entertainment Culture, Eclipse, Teen films, Twilight series, Romance novels, Breaking Dawn, Twilight, Fantasy novels, Horror novels, Walt Disney, Roald Dahl, Jamie Campbell Bower, John Travolta
Wes Anderson, creator of the rascally stop-motion fable "Fantastic Mr. Fox", turns out to be born to make animated films. I say that with a bit of mischief, because I'm not a big fan of Anderson's work ("Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited"). What I now...
Tags: Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson, George Clooney, animation film, motion animation, Roald Dahl, The Royal Tenenbaums, Los Angeles, Fantastic Mr. Fox, American film directors, Entertainment Culture, Noah Baumbach, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Fictional foxes, Novellas, films, Meryl Streep, Rushmore, Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Film soundtracks, Human Interest, Allison Abbate, Michael Gambon, Animation, Boy, Year of birth missing, Scott Rudin
This witty film takes us through the life of Mr. Fox ( George Clooney ), where he has to put his rebellious tendencies aside and mature into a loving, responsible and respectable father. Along the way, Mr. Fox falls back on his mischievous ways but stays...
Tags: Mr. Fox, Los Angeles, Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl, Jason Schwartzman, Dahl, Allison Abbate, American film directors, Fantastic Mr. Fox, films, Social Issues, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Entertainment Culture
Fantastic Mr. Fox was the first book Anderson ever read. �I still have the copy I got when I was a kid,� said Anderson during a recent Chicago visit...It�s the only time I�ll ever be cast as Mrs. George Clooney!� As for Clooney himself, Anderson said...
Tags: Wes Anderson, Mr. Fox, Milwaukee, Noah Baumbach, Rushmore, Dahl, George Clooney, American film directors, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, Entertainment Culture, films, Jason Schwartzman, Fictional foxes
His debut film, Bottle Rocket (1996), starring his goofily charming friends the Wilson brothers, won him early cult status. Rushmore was built on a witty and distinctive voice, and Anderson's visual brilliance came into sharp focus with The Royal Tenenbaums...
Tags: Mr. Fox, Los Angeles, Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl, American film directors, Fantastic Mr. Fox, films, Entertainment Culture, Novellas, George Clooney, Fox McCloud, Fictional foxes