#animated-christian-film

#animated-christian-film

Publicly traded companies are by legal definition and requirement completely amoral. They want only one thing, to raise their stock price, and the public good and common decency are just obstacles to be overcome or spun in that quest.

Hoppers is a surprisingly blunt pushback to the notion of animals living together in harmony. Its advertising promises goofy hijinks amid an enclave of diverse species whose ecosystem is threatened by humans.

'It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!' is a great family movie that includes funny callbacks between Linus and Sally about the Great Pumpkin.

We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.... As time's gone on, I realized my job is to make sure the films appeal to everybody.

Nineteen-year-old Mabel Tanaka has always used nature as a means of calming her volatile emotions, decompressing in the silence of the placid pond near her house with her beloved grandmother by her side. But as Mabel grows from a sullen teen to a young adult, her coping mechanisms fall away one by one. Her parents move away, her grandmother dies, and the pond, the last stable place in her life, is deserted by the wildlife that once gave her so much comfort, and scheduled to be paved over for a new highway.

Trying to navigate [production] while listening to the voice of your dead best friend is brutal. It changed everything. It went from being this fun capricious lark to this beautiful and sad process. It was very tough.

It's dead, sadly. I say sadly because I actually thought there was something really special (and original!) there. Some truly extraordinary music we had figured out for it.

Well, we've mostly made it through the first month of 2026 - although, ya know, it's been real touch-and-go. And while we're now rolling into what is typically one of the coldest, dreariest (whatever, I said what I said) months of the year, at least February is mercifully short. Even better: Netflix is packing the month full of new family-friendly movies and shows, preschool favorites, Valentine's Day specials, and a few cozy comfort picks to watch while you're hunkered down at home.

Following a flurry of online backlash, AMC Theaters said it would no longer allow an AI-generated short film to be shown at its US locations, in the latest example of the mounting resistance to AI's encroachment on the arts.

Greatest of all time? No. Possibly not even the greatest of half-term. This loud, chaotic and unlovable animated kids' comedy feels as though it is bordering on AI slop, algorithmically generated and instantly familiar from Zootropolis, Sing and other movies with talking animals. It is a shame, because it has a real-life inspiration: basketball star Stephen Curry, who was repeatedly told at the start of his career that he was too skinny and too small to make it as a pro.

Last week, he opened a $230-million movie and television studio on the edge of the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles nestled alongside the dramatic new Sixth Street Bridge. The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp. "We just had all the major networks, all the major streaming platforms walk through this facility and they can't believe how nice it is," said Wainright, managing partner of East End Studios.

"The thing I don't understand is how you lose money running a laundromat," Hamrah writes, "especially if you own the building."