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Timothée Chalamet stars in director Paul King's musical origin story.

Once upon a time Steven Spielberg was the fabulist of our time. Looking at Close Encounters of the Third Kind or E.T or even Jurassic Park and A.I., you could see a sense of wonder and playfulness in his filmmaking,...

Once upon a time Steven Spielberg was the fabulist of our time. Looking at Close Encounters or E.T. or even Jurassic Park and A.I., you could see a sense of wonder and playfulness in his filmmaking, a childlike enthusiasm that...

Remember how this page was once filled with Fantastic Mr Fox reviews. Well, the film finally landed in Belgium. So even if this review seems royally late, for many of us the film is just barely available in the legal...

[What can I say ... there are a lot of people here with opinions on Wes Anderson's latest creation.  Our thanks to regular reader and occasional contributor Charles Webb for the following.]Twelve years ago (fox years, that is) Mr. Fox...

With a cast of talking stop-motion animated wild animals that are imbued with the herky-jerky charm of old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"), it may seem like modern-day iconoclast filmmaker Wes Anderson has turned a corner into...

Coming into the theatres in wide release with all the joie de vivre of a little boy trying to please his girlfriend and mother, Fantastic Mr. Fox is yet another trump card in the quality animated and family film derby...

Wes Anderson's funny, fabulous Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like a book that's been missing from his library, an all-ages comedy with tender life lessons gently imparted by lovable characters. For all I know, Roald Dahl is spinning in his grave,...

[Our thanks to regular reader indiemaker for the following review.] "Uh, my dad's on fire..." Fantastic Mr. Fox might just be one of the biggest surprises of the year for me.  2009 has really shaped up to be a year...

We generally restrain ourselves from posting One Sheets around these parts; most especially faux cross-over mash-up one-sheets.  But those on the festival circuit, in particular this years attendees of Fantastic Fest, will appreciate the spot-on gag.  Furthermore, it is hard...

No, not Fantastic Mr. Fox (more on that later), but The Cloud Photographers! Haven't heard of that one? Well, that could be because the film doesn't actually exist. Dreamt up by Nicholas Guewitch, the artist responsible for the funniest website to...