By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic “Cars” is an interesting film franchise. Not only did the popularity of the 2006 animated release result in the Disney Pixar property getting its own themed land at Disneyland Resort’s Disney California Adventure Park, but it’s also only the second P [...]
By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years since “Finding Nemo” first swam into audiences’ hearts. While the beloved animated adventure’s long-awaited sequel, “Finding Dory,” may not live up to the high standards Pixar set for itself with “Toy Story 2” and “Toy Sto [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—After a 13-year gap, short-term memory challenged blue tang fish Dory returns to the big screen along with Nemo, Marlin and the rest of the school for the Disney/Pixar sequel, “Finding Dory.” Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 48, reprises her role as th [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Sam Elliott and Anna Paquin play a pretty fearsome-looking father-and-daughter duo in Disney Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur.” It’s the second feature-length film from the acclaimed animation house this year, following the successful inside-the-head-focuse [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Comedian Bill Hader is the voice of Fear in the new Disney Pixar animated feature “Inside Out.” The former “Saturday Night Live” cast member joins fellow alum Amy Poehler as one of five core emotions inside an 11-year-old girl’s head. Hader and Poehle [...]