The holidays are here and the kids will soon be out of school, so why not take them to an animated movie about the violent sport of bullfighting! You wouldn’t, you say? The folks at Blue Sky Studios, ...

The beloved children’s book “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, was published in 1936, but the pacifist story about a bull who would rather smell flowers than ...

The pitch for Ferdinand is simple. Like so many other classic kids movies and stories from throughout time, it all stems from the idea of a character born into a certain kind of world or family, but ...

It’s a natural progression that a beloved storybook bull who’d rather smell flowers than fight would find a home on the big screen in an animated feature. But in the case of “Ferdinand” — based on ...

Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes ...

This holiday season, there's all manner of conflict at your local movie theater — Jedis battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there's ...

This holiday season, there’s all manner of conflict at your local movie theater: Jedi battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there’s ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that ...