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Into this crowded agora comes David Bowers' Astro Boy, an animated feature based on Osamu Tezuka's 1951 manga series that spawned a TV cartoon series from the '60s. (I confess I never saw it, because I was out doing stuff that decade.) The new version, streamlined and Americanized, but with animation from the Hong Kong company Imagi, lacks the brand recognition of the big CGI studios, but the movie has its charms. It's fun, encyclopedically derivative and pretty darned affecting. (See TIME's pictures "Animated Movies: Not Just for Kids...
...Nobody ever talks about this stuff," Eliza grouses to her best friend, Sheila (Minnie Driver), as they are leaving their children's school, having dropped off something essential but forgotten in the morning rush to get out the door...
...1950s through the '70s, had the seeming informality of a friendly fellow you would hire to entertain the tots. He'd crack venerable jokes, play with puppets, teach the occasional verity ("Don't eat just before dinner") and, at the end, get a custard pie in the face. Simple stuff, really, but delivered with a brio that kept generations of children giggling. So his death on Thursday in a Bronx hospice, at age 83 after years of declining health, had to raise a tear, and a reflective silly grin...
...turn into a bat and stuff?” wonders starry-eyed Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), the newest vampire-adolescent to hop aboard the young-adult bloodsucker bandwagon. “No,” replies his vampire mentor, the cloaked and mysterious Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly), “that’s bullshit.” This is not the only instance in Paul Weitz’s new film, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” in which Crepsley correctly associates his young apprentice with tedium, puerility...
...with my deep man voice, “I admire your style but I can’t be doing shit...I mean stuff like that.” With a crumpling flourish, he withdrew his sandwich. The next part of this story is completely true and wholly unexpected. Putting his little-person hand on my iPod (which was on the bench next to me), he said “I’m gonna chuck this shit.” “No you’re not,” I said, only half-seriously because...