Wallace and Gromit: The Best of Aardman Animation

"...episode here features that increasingly popular duo known as Wallace and Gromit, but don't let that keep you from..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Wallace & Gromit

Aardman's Big Cheese Is Nick Park

"...Greece is not great enough (the Olympic games, Pythagoras and Socrates, to say nothing of a good slice of..."

June 28, 1996 Screens Feature by Patrick Taggart

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.

"...Directed by: Nick Park and Steve Box. Enough with the CGI animation, Disney, DreamWorks,..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2010: Animation

This year's five nominees for the best animated short Oscar are available for viewing. This year’s five Academy Award-nominated animated shorts include “A Matter of Loaf and Death,” the latest stop-motion Claymation piece from Nick Park and Aardman; “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” by Nicky Phelan; “The Lady and the Reaper" by Recio García; “French Roast” by Fabrice O. Joubert; and the winning “Logorama” by the H5 collective.

"...Directed by: Various. Bitter. Bilious. Deluded. Death-obsessed. And that ain’t all, folks – this year’s five Academy..."

Feb. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shaun the Sheep Movie

The latest from Aardman Animations is one baaaaaadass movie

"...Directed by: Mark Burton and Richard Starzak...."

Aug. 7, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spike & Mike's '97 Festival of Animation

"...As always, it's a mixed bag, with various styles and sensibilities represented, from the sublime to the superfluous, and..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Pirates!: Band of Misfits

Whether it's Pirates or Wallace and Gromit or Chicken Run, Aardman's stop-motion animation delivers the goods.

"...Directed by: Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt...."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2001

"...corporate entity may have a slow sales year now and again, but there's still a lot of his burnished..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: 'A Town Called Panic'

This French-language stop-motion film journeys all the way to the center of the earth and back.

"...in Panic – this French-language production from Aardman Studios (Wallace and Gromit) journeys all the way to the center..."

Sept. 24, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Turkey Day Movie Time-Outs

Alamo screens 'Chicken Run,' 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles'

"...further than these two family-friendly holiday classics, Chicken Run and Planes, Trains & Automobiles...."

Nov. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Eli Black

Holiday Viewing: TV Christmas Episodes

Celebrate the season in Sunnydale, the Oval Office, and more

"...episodes take the basic DNA of a TV show and turn up the volume – metering out a dollop..."

Dec. 14, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Chicken Run

Absolutely delightful filmmaking, chock-full of gorgeously goofy animation and a storyline that cleverly echoes everything from Stalag 17 to Cool Hand Luke. – Marc Savlov

"...Directed by: Peter Lord and Nick Park. A couple of years ago, I was..."

June 23, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

The Young Ones in "Demolition," "Bomb," & "Sick"

"...D: Paul Jackson and Geoff Posner; with Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Adrian Edmondson,..."

Jan. 3, 1997 Screens Feature

Video Box Sets

"...Night," grinning deer figurines in front lawns, traffic jams (and fender benders) at the malls. Aliens visiting from another..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

SXSW Film Reviews

"...only Commonwealthers are capable. Combining the cutesy aesthetics of Wallace and Gromit with the dystopian drab of The Triplets..."

March 18, 2005 Screens Feature by Jess Sauer

Aardman Animations

"...than Steven Spielberg, Aardman Animations (the folks behind the Wallace and Gromit claymation shorts and the adorable Chevron cars..."

May 5, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

The Motion in the 'Mation

AFF's Saturday free claymation workshop for kids

"...animation. Kids can find out for themselves at a hands-on free workshop being held tomorrow (Saturday) morning...."

Aug. 5, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Movie Titles for 1996

"...DRIVERRevival(M.B.)4/5/96 THAT THING YOU DO!3.5(H.C.)10/4/96 THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE, A2.5(M.B.)4/19/96 THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOUÕRE..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

Titan, King, God, Monster

Ray Harryhausen in Austin, Tuesday, March 28

"...striding across a Crete beachhead in pursuit of Jason and his argonauts; the sorrowful Venusian Ymir, its pebbled tail..."

March 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Postmarks

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

"...Jones [July 14]. Yes, Alex does raise his voice, and yes, Alex does speak with virulent emotion and for..."

July 21, 2000 Column

Wild, Wild Webcasts

Why party in line when you can party online?

"...Eve 1999, the final few hours of hype, hope, and (possible) horror draining away like so much sand in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Arthur Christmas

The folks at Aardman Animation, who gave us Wallace & Gromit, seve up an instant – and funny – holiday classic.

"...Is Coming to Town." Happily, once Bieber scuttles offscreen and the Aardman Animation titles come up, you're in good,..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...Directed by: David Bowers and Sam Fell. Somerset Maugham, The Third Man, Manchester United,..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Veteran's Voice

Playwright Johnny Meyer returned from war to learn that theatre is essential to life

"...He was playing Richard III's henchman at Winedale, and, without thinking about it, did something he'd done as..."

March 22, 2013 Arts Feature by Jillian Owens

Oscars Accepts That Animated Films Are Animated

Austin-made Apollo 10 1/2 now eligible for Academy Award

"...Three of the year's most critically acclaimed and visually stunning animated movies - including Austin-made Apollo 10..."

Nov. 10, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

What's the Buzz?

Guide to Summer Films

"...What a perfect summer to be young and in line (for the movies, that is). Hatching things..."

May 26, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

Postmarks

Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.

"..."Performance Anxiety," the headline and tone of your February 17 story, does not accurately..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Column