Critics are giving Disney's Bolt no standing ovation, as they are wont to do for most of the Pixar product the studio releases, but they are giving it plenty of polite applause. Consider A.O. Scott's comments in the New York Times "If Bolt ... does ...

21 Nov 2008

"Bolt" begins with a noisy chase scene. Big bruisers who resemble refugees from the Clone Wars are after a young girl and her pooch. The motley crew comes at you in 3-D. Bam! Kabam! At this point you might wonder, "Are major ballistics really ...

21 Nov 2008

Last Thanksgiving, Disney offered moviegoers ENCHANTED , the story of a would-be princess catapulted from her home in a mythical land into the heart of New York City. This year, Disney presents BOLT , in which a different kind of fish-out-of-water ...

21 Nov 2008

John Kelly writes about the Washington that doesn't make it onto the front pages. His five-day-a-week Metro column, John Kelly's Washington , is about the normal -- well, relatively normal -- people who call our region home. It's about the joys and ...

21 Nov 2008

For years now, the Walt Disney animation studio has been living a nightmare version of one of its own classic stories. The ugly stepsister to Pixar's Cinderella, Disney Animation -- the studio behind Cinderella, as well as Snow White, Bambi and Dumbo ...

21 Nov 2008

BOLT IS ADORABLE in all the ways a family movie about a superhero dog can be adorable. The opening action sequence is as riveting as anything in The Incredibles , the animals are so cute you immediately want to hold them, and the story, while ...

21 Nov 2008