Cartoon Brew

Modern Car-Toons: A Look At Autos In Mid-Century Animation

Animation can provide a fascinating window into the past. In the 1950s and 1960s, as cars became a fixture in contemporary life, animators made all kinds of films about automobile culture, exploring ...
SFGate

'Cars' looks cool. But take it out for a spin for 2 hours and it runs out of gas.

Cars: Animation. Featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Paul Newman and Bonnie Hunt. Directed by John Lasseter. Co-directed by Joe Ranft. (G. 116 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Cars are people in the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Cars 3’ Writers Tackling Animated Movie ‘A Tale of Momentum and Inertia’ (Exclusive)

The Fox Animation project adapts and expands the short animated film that made the festival circuit rounds a few years ago. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer ...
Los Angeles Times

Made-in-China movie draws fire as a copycat of Pixar’s ‘Cars’

Reporting from Beijing — When Zheng Wenyi, 18, went with her boyfriend to a cinema in Beijing last week, she wanted to pick an interesting movie for their date. All the films showing appeared to be ...
IndieWire

‘Cars 3’ and ‘Despicable Me 3’: In a Summer of Franchise Failures, Animation Sequels Hold Their Own

While they opened better than other summer tentpoles, franchise lows for "Despicable Me 3" and "Cars 3" represent serious sequel fatigue. Pixar’s “Cars 3” and Illumination’s “Despicable Me 3” are what ...
autoweek

Pixar Motorama is the coolest car show you've never heard of

Getting into Pixar’s semi-secret Motorama car show is the automotive car-guy equivalent of a kid getting into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. The animation mega-conglomerate that brought the world ...