Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

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Did I have long stretches of happy grinning while watching Robot Dreams, even on my subsequent rewatches, when I knew what was coming? Yes, I did. An Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature ...

The Wild Robot—an animated hit starring the voice of Lupita Nyong’o—is coming soon to streaming video on demand on Peacock. Rated PG, The Wild Robot opened in theaters on September 27 before pivoting ...

There are two very different births in "The Wild Robot," the latest animated film from Universal Pictures. One is the birth of Rozzum 7134, a robot known as Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), who first boots up on ...

Sometimes a movie debuts at a film festival and the acclaim seems practically universal. The response is so good, so amazing, so [checks thesaurus] ebullient that it makes you wonder if the whole ...

Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. Twins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The animated conversation this year has been dominated by the medium’s biggest grosser yet (“Inside Out 2”) and one of the most ...

The Wild Robot — the Best Animated Feature Oscar nominee starring the voice of Lupita Nyong’o — is coming soon to streaming on Netflix. Based on the bestselling children’s book by Peter Brown, The ...

The animated conversation this year has been dominated by the medium’s biggest grosser yet (“Inside Out 2”) and one of the most acclaimed big-studio entries in years (“The Wild Robot”). But don’t ...