The animated 3D holiday film from creators of “Chicken Run” was praised for its talented voice cast and “lively innovation.” By Rebecca Ford Senior Awards Editor With a dream voice cast of James ...

A long time ago, I interned for a company that very much wanted to make a TV Christmas movie. This meant that we were sent dozens of Christmas-themed scripts, most of them involving some sort of wacky ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 99-percenters don’t need to start an Occupy North Pole movement over “Arthur Christmas,” the animated comedy that shows how Santa Claus manages to ...

Christmas has always been magical. But creating “Arthur Christmas” -- the computer-generated 3D comedy that opens Wednesday and features a high-tech Santa capable of delivering toys in a Millennium ...

“Arthur Christmas” is not the year’s best animated movie (“Rango” maybe?), but it does have the best single image in any animated film this year. It comes near the end, when Santa’s big-hearted son, ...

Animation. Directed by Sarah Smith. Starring the voices of Hugh Laurie and James McAvoy. (PG. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) You probably didn't know this, but Santa has two sons: one named Steve, ...

When it comes to 21st century Christmas classics the whole family can enjoy year after year, Jon Favreau’s delightful Elf is the reigning, defending, undisputed champion, but there are certainly other ...

Arthur Christmas is a 2011 animated Christmas movie produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation. The film offers a modern and humorous take on the traditional Santa Claus story. The ...

One thing I learned while writing my holiday film guide “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” is that there are two kinds of plots in this sub-genre with a tendency to stink on ice: movies about ...