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Marge Simpson uses her voice to call out Trump adviser

LOS ANGELES – Marge Simpson has advice for a lawyer with the Trump campaign: Do not name call. In a clip posted Friday by Fox’s animated series “The Simpsons,” matriarch Marge chi...

DATE: Aug 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Ren, Stimpy to make TV comeback in new Comedy Central show

LOS ANGELES – The brazen humor of “The Ren & Stimpy Show” will be revisited in a new Comedy Central version of the animated series. The original program that was a hit for Nickelo...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Coco’ shakes up Pixar formula

Pixar is already being rewarded for its inclusivity on “Coco,” the studio’s 19th film. The story takes place in Mexico, and when the movie debuted there late last month, it quickly became th...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘My Little Pony: The Movie’: Sugary sweet and only slightly sticky

Lollipop-sweet and rainbow-bright, the four-legged gal pals of Ponyville go clippity-clopping from the small screen to the big in “My Little Pony: The Movie.” With its only slight...

DATE: Oct 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

This Lego movie doesn’t really ﬁt in

Legos were invented in 1949. The character of Batman, 10 years before that. “The Lego Movie” (2014) and this year’s “The Lego Batman Movie” riffed brilliantly on those storied histories – si...

DATE: Sep 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Harley Quinn teams with Batman in new movie

Harley Quinn’s animated homecoming is quite the grown-up affair in Warner Bros. Animation’s latest straight-to-home-video DC Comics movie. Harley Quinn is now a movie star (“Suici...

DATE: Sep 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The Emoji Movie’ has a zero score on Rotten Tomatoes – critics are eviscerating the film

There is perhaps no single emoji to reflect just how savagely film critics are trashing “The Emoji Movie.” A succession of skulls and dumpster fires would only begin to suggest the intensity...

DATE: Jul 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Disney fans get look at ‘Incredibles 2,’ ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’

ANAHEIM, Calif. – When it comes to Disney, they like to keep it in the family, whether it’s getting a football team’s worth of original Disney princesses to cameo in “Wreck-It Ralph 2,” reun...

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Despicable Me 3’ is good enough, but far from great

Like yet another cold, sugary soft drink dispensed from a vending machine, the animated sequel “Despicable Me 3” is only satisfying in direct proportion to one’s thirst. If you ar...

DATE: Jul 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Cars 3’ finally running out of gas?

Lightning McQueen’s third time around the track is showing signs that Disney/Pixar’s reliable “Cars” franchise may, after two popular and original installments in the series of animated tale...

DATE: Jun 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming