The project began as a lark, an author’s hasty effort to write a children’s book manuscript for his artist friend to illustrate. Yet the resulting picture book, “The Story of Ferdinand,” became an ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood's crassness kills the charm. Happily, that ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that is ...

This holiday season, there’s all manner of conflict at your local movie theater: Jedi battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires ...

In 1936 the book, The Story of Ferdinand, was published. Two years later, Disney turned it into an Oscar-winning short film. Now, the beloved... 'Ferdinand' The Peaceful Bull Gets His First ...

Ferdinand is Blue Sky Studios’ twelfth animated feature film. Director Carlos Saldanha, whose most recent outing was Rio 2, directed this adaptation of Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s ...

Credits: Directed by Carlos Saldanha, with the voices of John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Jeremy Sisto, Bobby Cannavale, Raul Esparza, Jerrod Carmichael, Lily Day. Running time/rating: 1:46, PG for rude ...

Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires fattening up to become a film. Sometimes Hollywood’s crassness kills the charm. Happily, that ...

This holiday season, there’s all manner of conflict at your local movie theater — Jedis battling in the stars, Winston Churchill warring in Europe and Olympic athletes dueling on ice. And then there’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three and one-half stars. Rated PG. 106 minutes. Any picture book that a parent can read to kids in a few short minutes, no matter how delightful, requires ...