To dispense with the obvious, Life of Pi is a technical marvel that seamlessly captures the essential (some would think unfilmable) central story of a young man trapped on a lifeboat in the company of a large Bengal tiger. Yann...

The film opens with a slow-motion reminder of the bodies piled as carrion in the dark final days of the American Civil War; it will be the only moment of strict battlefield action as Steven Spielberg’s intimate, swelling epic L...

There may seem to be glut of scary-themed animated movies this fall – we’ve already had ParaNorman and Hotel Transylvania – and now we have Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s comparably modest addition to a genre he had a significant ...