PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Out of the lab and into the wild. The Wild Robot tells the story of ROZZUM unit 7134, aka Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), an advanced humanoid robot that washes up on a remote island after ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Dog, the furry main character of the animated “Robot Dreams,” lives a solitary life in New York’s East Village during the 1980s. The neighborhood hums, hoots and hollers with life, though in this case ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked ...

I had a strange angle during my Toronto International Film Festival screening of director Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot. I don’t mean that I brought a particularly special perspective on the movie ...

Pablo Berger channels Chaplin, Tati, and Earth, Wind & Fire in his acclaimed animated debut about the friendship between a dog and a robot in New York's East Village. Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams,” ...

Within the last handful of years, animation has earned a new level of respect. So many animated films check all of the boxes, from good story, good voice casting, they look beautiful, there’s a ...