Even a crime movie like Kangaroo Jack was successfully marketed as if it featured a rapping kangaroo, despite the fact that ...

"Animal Farm" is a movie full of songs and talking critters but also tackles heady themes from George Orwell's novella. Is it ...

George Orwell was not really going for subtlety when he wrote the novel “Animal Farm.” (The Times reviewer in 1946 called it ...

Directed by Andy Serkis, this baffling adaptation of the revolutionary fable by George Orwell is just... woof. (No idea how ...

In the animated movie Up, a boisterous dog wears an electronic collar that translates his doggy thoughts into English words. ...

The first movie adaptation of Orwell’s classic was funded by the CIA. The new one is motivated by something else entirely.

There are some early cues that the new animated “Animal Farm” is not your grandmother's “Animal Farm.” Like when one critter asks, “What's up?” and another says, “Totally rad.” Did George Orwell ...

In 1991, I guested on a popular national TV talk show in Sophia, Bulgaria, a country which had, of course, recently emerged from years of communist control as the Iron Curtain fell. The program was a ...

Director Andy Serkis said his adaptation of "Animal Farm," in theaters Friday, offers more hope for the future than author ...

In my review of Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights," I said that if her horny, problematic film were a book report, there would have been an uncomfortable parent-teacher conference afterward. But I ...

At a time that Hollywood is grappling with the job-killing effects of AI — and as the organizers of the Oscars and the Golden ...

Shelby Van Pelt is the author of the hit novel "Remarkably Bright Creatures" about a giant Pacific octopus who develops a ...