Barbara Robertson

Marvel’s Black Panther powered into theaters with a record-setting box office and high fives from critics for the story, fully-realized characters, and overall, thought-provoking vision. Ryan Coogler of Creed and Fruitvale Station fame wrote and directed the Disney release, Marvel’s first black superhero film.
Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black Panther, a newly crowned King of Wakanda. Wakanda is a secret, technologically advanced African nation that harbors and leverages ...

All winter, I stared at my magnolia tree’s bare branches, wishing for spring. Except, when I looked closely, I saw that the branches weren’t bare. While I waited for green leaves and pink blossoms, I saw that silvery tufts and grey-blue rosettes like doilies on my grandmother’s armchair had adorned the branches and tattooed the trunks. Lichens.
Once I became aware of lichens, I saw them everywhere: In spots where nothing else thought to grow. On fences, trees and rocks. Green, blue, yellow, r...

Once again, the skilled artists working at Pixar Animation Studios have exercised their expertise in computer graphics, animation, and storytelling to raise the art of CGI filmmaking with a colorful, unique, heart-tugging, joyful, and memorable film. The venerable studio’s 19th animated feature Coco takes place during one day and night, a time known in Mexico as Dìa de Muertos, the Day of the Dead. If you think a one-day timeframe confining, you underestimate Pixar.
Disney•Pixar’s Coco center...

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One sends movie audiences into a dismal future. But who really cares when it’s possible to escape a dreary existence anytime by entering a virtual playground called the OASIS? In the OASIS you can become anyone you want in a world you create. The movie takes off when OASIS creator Halliday (played by Mark Rylance) dies leaving behind a challenge: Find his Easter Egg and win control of his fortune and the OASIS. And thus, a massive treasure hunt begins. We follo...

Wes Anderson’s set his stop-motion film Isle of Dogs in Japan, where, supposedly for health reasons, Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura) has exiled all dogs to an island full of garbage, including his young ward Atari’s (Koyu Rankin) guard dog, Spots (Liev Schreiber). Produced by American Empirical Pictures and distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the film, which went into wide release on April 13, has achieved a 91 percent aggregate approval rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes, ...

By: Barbara Robertson. In the film Jurassic World, the fictional owners of the imaginary Jurassic World theme park faced a problem: Attendance at the island ......

A look at Oscar-nominated Interstellar VFX work by VFX supervisor Paul Franklin....